Hi, I'm 18 years old. I'm about to make a very important decision, I went to the doctor today to do an evaluation of my body, to do an lipo with local anesthesia. He explained to me everything about this type of surgery, but I'm still not sure about it. I heard a lot of story's of girls that died doing this type of surgery, especially the only with General Anesthesia... I'm really scared but also that is my "dream".
Answer: Loopy dear local liposuction is surgery and therefore it has risks. Local anesthesia can be used or you can have anesthesia. The risks of the surgery are the same. There are risks to anesthesia but they are rare with experienced anesthesiologist. What can be very dangerous is taking large doses of medication by mouth and not having a anesthesia provider monitoring you. Often a physician recommends llocal anesthesia when they don't have privileges to do surgery with anesthesia. Check their credentials
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Answer: Loopy dear local liposuction is surgery and therefore it has risks. Local anesthesia can be used or you can have anesthesia. The risks of the surgery are the same. There are risks to anesthesia but they are rare with experienced anesthesiologist. What can be very dangerous is taking large doses of medication by mouth and not having a anesthesia provider monitoring you. Often a physician recommends llocal anesthesia when they don't have privileges to do surgery with anesthesia. Check their credentials
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September 17, 2016
Answer: Liposuction anesthesia the risk of anesthesia related complications is extraordinarily low regardless of whether you do tumescent anesthesia alone, IV sedation, or general anesthesia.I personally do not like trying to do a liposuction case without at least IV sedation (like you'd get for wisdom tooth extraction or a colonoscopy). Trying to do these cases just using the local anesthesia in tumescent fluid is very uncomfortable for many patients for all but the smallest cases. For stand-alone liposuction cases we do most under deep IV sedation with an anesthesiologist/CRNA as it lets the patient be discharged sooner with less nausea then general anesthesia. With prone (face down) cases of significant length of time, we often may use general anesthesia for better airway protection depending on the patient's size
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September 17, 2016
Answer: Liposuction anesthesia the risk of anesthesia related complications is extraordinarily low regardless of whether you do tumescent anesthesia alone, IV sedation, or general anesthesia.I personally do not like trying to do a liposuction case without at least IV sedation (like you'd get for wisdom tooth extraction or a colonoscopy). Trying to do these cases just using the local anesthesia in tumescent fluid is very uncomfortable for many patients for all but the smallest cases. For stand-alone liposuction cases we do most under deep IV sedation with an anesthesiologist/CRNA as it lets the patient be discharged sooner with less nausea then general anesthesia. With prone (face down) cases of significant length of time, we often may use general anesthesia for better airway protection depending on the patient's size
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